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Color:
Periwinkle


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Colors with the same hue:
Abyssal Blue
Marine Blue
Twilight Blue
Graphite
Industrial Blue
Dusk Blue
Astral Blue
True blue
Microsoft Edge blue
Blue yonder
Bright Blue
Cool Blue
Bleu de France
United Nations blue
Vista blue
Nearby colors:
Light periwinkle
Fog
Starlight Silver
Porcelain
Celestial Silver
Airy Blue
Aluminum
Moonlight
Shimmer
Lavender 
Lavender mist
Blue-gray 
Metallic silver
Pale cornflower blue
Lavender gray
Heather
Polar Blue
Baby blue eyes
Cloudy Gray
Manatee
Words evoked by this color:
peradventure,  periwinkle,  perivascular,  winkle,  perchance,  plumbago,  perdy,  chortle,  dilly-dally,  gentian,  bemused,  flummoxed,  perambulate,  per,  permeability,  perpendicular,  improbable,  quizzical,  surprisingly,  uniquely,  unique,  perpetuate,  infrequently,  columbia,  palliate,  palliation,  meredith,  embrace,  hummed,  massage,  doze,  comforting,  harmoniously,  bethany,  supple,  adagio,  ambience,  palliative,  ambiance,  gate,  merciful,  rested,  idealism,  pacification,  sympathize,  courteously,  loosen,  diluting,  transgender,  courteous
Literary analysis:
In literature, periwinkle is often used as a subtle, evocative hue that conveys both serenity and a sense of delicate beauty. For example, in one passage the “periwinkle‐blue” of slender columns of smoke offers a dreamlike contrast to a still, yellow atmosphere, enhancing the scene’s otherworldly quality [1]. In another instance, a character’s eyes are described as “of pale periwinkle,” lending them a gentle, ethereal charm that deepens their portrayal [2]. Through such imagery, periwinkle as a color becomes a nuanced device to enrich both natural landscapes and the emotional resonance of characters.
  1. Above the mud houses of the fellah villages rise slender columns of smoke, which are of a periwinkle-blue in the midst of the still yellow atmosphere.
    — from Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Pierre Loti
  2. They have angelic faces; their eyes, of pale periwinkle, are softly deep; their complexion is that of a flower, or an infant; their smile is divine.
    — from With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3


Colors associated with the word:
Periwinkle 
Lavender 
Lilac
Mauve
Baby blue
Powder blue
Sky blue 
Light Blue
Cornflower blue 
Ice Blue
Soft Blue
Pale blue
Misty Blue
Wisteria
Heather
Iris
Words with similar colors:
winkle,  plumbago,  perchance,  perivascular,  raillery,  matilda,  peer,  fey,  perdy,  mew,  figment,  mimsy,  barmy,  burble,  revery,  beatrix,  move,  haze,  coo,  spindle


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